This tutorial is for those that have a working knowledge of PSP. This tutorial was written by me on January 25, 2014 and any resemblance is purely coincidental. I use PSP 9, but any version should work. I do not allow my tutorials to be translated and please do not claim them as your own. If you would like to share the tutorial please send a link to my blog. Thank you!
Things Needed:
Tube/Image of choice: Im using the wonderful art of Zindy S.D.Nielsen which is a PTU tube so please don’t use any tubes that you haven’t
purchased or do not have a license to use.
Kit of choice: I am using part of a collab from Pimp My Tagswith Scraps called Save the Boobies, a
beautiful BCA collab. This portion is created by Polka Dot Scraps
Plugins: None Needed
Masks/Templates: None Needed
Font, Animation, or other items needed:
Let’s Begin:
1)
Open a new image 600 x 600 72 DPI
2)
Open PDS_StB- string.png
3)
Copy and paste as a new layer on our working
image
4)
Resize by 85%
5)
Open PDS_StB- string.png
6)
Resize by 85 %
7)
Copy and paste as a new layer on our working
image
8)
Adjust- sharpness- sharpen
9)
Crop off any of the excess that you don’t want
to keep on your tag
10)
Now highlight the actual bookmark layer again
11)
Selections- select all- float-defloat
12)
Open your tube at this time and copy and paste
as a new layer on our working image
13)
Selections –invert
14)
Hit delete on your keyboard- select none
15)
Now you can lower the opacity or add a texture
if you would like to your tube layer
16)
I however chose to duplicate my tube layer
17)
On the duplicate layer adjust-blur-gaussian blur
with a radius of 7.00
18)
Now I changed the opacity to hard light
19)
Highlight our bookmark layer again
20)
Selections- select all- float-defloat
21)
Now select the blurred layer of our tube again
22)
Hit delete on the keyboard again
23)
Selections –invert
24)
New raster layer
25)
Selections-Modify- Select Selections Borders
26)
Both sides- anti-alias- border width 2
27)
Now open a paper of your choosing
28)
Copy and paste as a new layer on our working
image
29)
Selections- Invert
30)
Hit delete on your keyboard again one time
31)
Select none
32)
Add a light drop shadow to this layer
33)
Open PDS_StB-
heartstem.png
34)
Resize by 70%
35)
Paste as a new layer on the working image
36)
Rotate slightly using our deform tool
37)
Place to your liking
38)
Send this layer to the bottom and add a drop
shadow
39)
Duplicate
40)
Image- Mirror
41)
Now duplicate again move this layer down a bit
42)
Again place to your liking you might have to rotate
them a little more to get them to a angle that you like
43)
Duplicate again-
44)
Image- Mirror
45)
Open PDS_StB- scatter.png
46)
Resize by 60 % and place to the top left of our
“bookmark”
47)
Add a nice drop shadow
48)
Duplicate
49)
Image mirror
50)
Image flip
51)
Open PDS_StB- heart1.png
52)
Resize by 60%
53)
Move this over to the bottom left of our
bookmark
54)
Open PDS_StB- cupcake.png
55)
Resize by 60% and again paste as a new layer
56)
Move it to the bottom left of our bookmark
57)
Now go back throughout our layers and add drop
shadow to the layers you would like a drop shadow on
58)
You can also add any other elements of your
choosing at this time
59)
Once satisfied merge visible
60)
Add your copyrights at this time and Name and export as a PNG
I hope that you like the way your new
bookmark tag turned out!
Hugs,
